Just how far would you go to save a loved one in peril? That’s the question asked by today’s brand new trailer for Colonia, thrusting Emma Watson’s Lufthansa flight attendant Lena into the Chilean military coup of 1973 – a political cauldron if there ever was one – in search of her wayward significant other.
Based loosely on real events, Florian Gallenberger’s period drama is situated during a time in which Salvador Allende governed the South American country with an iron fist, sparking an uprising to oust him from power. Rallying the freedom fighters is Daniel Brühl’s artist and activist, who becomes one of the many dissidents to be captured and ordered to Colonia Dignidad by General Augusto Pinochet.
It is here that Watson’s determined lead hopes to salvage a plan to help rescue Brühl’s rebel, but the only way to do so is to enlist...
Based loosely on real events, Florian Gallenberger’s period drama is situated during a time in which Salvador Allende governed the South American country with an iron fist, sparking an uprising to oust him from power. Rallying the freedom fighters is Daniel Brühl’s artist and activist, who becomes one of the many dissidents to be captured and ordered to Colonia Dignidad by General Augusto Pinochet.
It is here that Watson’s determined lead hopes to salvage a plan to help rescue Brühl’s rebel, but the only way to do so is to enlist...
- 2/17/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
or, Savant picks The Most Impressive Discs of 2015
This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.
What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...
This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.
What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...
- 12/15/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The masterful political documentaries of Chilean Guzmán, constitute a national epic for a beloved country traumatized for trying something new within a hostile political environment. How can one keep the memory of a national betrayal alive, after being forced into exile by a military dictator? How can the memory of a great national leader be kept alive, after so many dissidents were murdered or 'disappeared?' Five Films by Patricio Guzmán The Battle of Chile, Chile Obstinate Memory, The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende, Nostalgia for the Light, Filming Obstinately Meeting Patricio Guzmán DVD Icarus Films Home Video 1975-2011 B&W-Color / 1:33 flat full frame 775 min. Street Date September 29, 2015 / 79.98 Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A few years ago I reviewed Patricio Guzmán's The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory. In forty years of exile from his home country, Guzmán has continued to document the same historical trauma.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A few years ago I reviewed Patricio Guzmán's The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory. In forty years of exile from his home country, Guzmán has continued to document the same historical trauma.
- 10/13/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
As Patricio Guzman’s latest documentary The Pearl Button, which premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, completes its festival circuit rounds, a comprehensive box set of the famed Chilean documentarian’s most iconic works arrives on DVD. One of the world’s most noted masters of the medium, Guzman’s works provide an invaluable framework of his country’s violent past following the socialist revolution and violent coup which resulted in seventeen years of a harsh and violent dictatorship under the rule of Augusto Pinochet. Beginning with the three part saga The Battle of Chile, this eight disc set includes all of his most notable major historical and political documentaries through 2011’s Nostalgia for the Light. Though the collection is not a complete account of Guzman’s filmography, it’s a thematic distillation of a country’s harrowing history, and Guzman’s footage evolves from an initial priceless account of...
- 10/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
2. Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers
Weekend 3 - Jan.10-12th
The third Harvard Gulbenkian program showcases the work of three extraordinary artists who emblematize the creative and often radical approaches to non-fiction narrative that have transformed documentary cinema as a practice and realm of inquiry over the last two decades. In keeping with the larger mission of the Harvard-Gulbenkian program to create a new international context and conceptual framework from which to reexamine Portuguese cinema, the celebrated work of Susana de Sousa Dias is offered here in dialogue with the films and presence of two eminent figures of contemporary world cinema- the legendary Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán and South Korean experimental filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo. Guiding the distinct work of each director is a restless searching for an original form adequate and appropriate to the difficult and, indeed, bitterly contested chapters of national history they have bravely chosen to engage. Embracing...
Weekend 3 - Jan.10-12th
The third Harvard Gulbenkian program showcases the work of three extraordinary artists who emblematize the creative and often radical approaches to non-fiction narrative that have transformed documentary cinema as a practice and realm of inquiry over the last two decades. In keeping with the larger mission of the Harvard-Gulbenkian program to create a new international context and conceptual framework from which to reexamine Portuguese cinema, the celebrated work of Susana de Sousa Dias is offered here in dialogue with the films and presence of two eminent figures of contemporary world cinema- the legendary Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán and South Korean experimental filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo. Guiding the distinct work of each director is a restless searching for an original form adequate and appropriate to the difficult and, indeed, bitterly contested chapters of national history they have bravely chosen to engage. Embracing...
- 6/8/2014
- by Cinema Dialogues: Harvard at the Gulbenkian
- MUBI
The 17th edition of one of the most important film festivals in Chile announced its competition slate as well as retrospectives and other screenings of documentaries from famous directors. Dedicated exclusively to non-fiction filmmaking from Chile, Latin-America and the world, Fidocs was created and still headed by legendary Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light, The Battle of Chile Trilogy). Since its beginnings Fidocs has been a politically committed festival that inscribes each decision with a responsible editorial line, thus, the 40th anniversary of the coup d'etat that threw out the democratic government of Salvador Allende and put the dictator Augusto Pinochet at the head of state in 1973 couldn't possibly be without any notice in the programming of the festival, with a special...
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- 6/19/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Patricio Guzmán, whose film The Battle of Chile chronicled Pinochet's coup, talks to Sukhdev Sandhu about Nostalgia for the Light, his new meditation on astronomy
Patricio Guzmán, the director responsible for The Battle of Chile (1975-1979), widely regarded as one of the towering achievements in the history of documentary film, is talking about its invisibility in the country where he was born. "It has never been transmitted on Chilean television. It provokes fear among executives. They do not dare. When all of us are dead then someone will dare to put it on screen. Meanwhile, every time someone on television is talking about Allende, they steal images from my film but use them in a context different from the original."
The Battle of Chile emerged during a period of revolutionary turmoil across Latin America. Mass movements against authoritarianism and for socialist emancipation were on the rise. A generation of insurgent...
Patricio Guzmán, the director responsible for The Battle of Chile (1975-1979), widely regarded as one of the towering achievements in the history of documentary film, is talking about its invisibility in the country where he was born. "It has never been transmitted on Chilean television. It provokes fear among executives. They do not dare. When all of us are dead then someone will dare to put it on screen. Meanwhile, every time someone on television is talking about Allende, they steal images from my film but use them in a context different from the original."
The Battle of Chile emerged during a period of revolutionary turmoil across Latin America. Mass movements against authoritarianism and for socialist emancipation were on the rise. A generation of insurgent...
- 7/20/2012
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Pasts both collective and personal are thoughtfully examined in Patricio Guzmán’s (The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende) ethereal documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, as he looks to both the stars and beneath our feet for information about each.
A labour of love for Chilean director Guzmán, one of our first sights is of a giant old German telescope situated in his hometown of Santiago, which serves to juxtapose his simple, provincial upbringing with the infinitesimal place it takes in the universe. Living through General Pinochet’s 1973 coup, in which the very notion of learning science was a grim prospect, Guzmán learned to associate it with hope, and the importance of not forgetting either our own or the world’s history.
Though steeped in some understandably grim detail, the focus here is on beauty in all its forms, specifically space as compared to Chile’s lifeless Atacama Desert,...
Pasts both collective and personal are thoughtfully examined in Patricio Guzmán’s (The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende) ethereal documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, as he looks to both the stars and beneath our feet for information about each.
A labour of love for Chilean director Guzmán, one of our first sights is of a giant old German telescope situated in his hometown of Santiago, which serves to juxtapose his simple, provincial upbringing with the infinitesimal place it takes in the universe. Living through General Pinochet’s 1973 coup, in which the very notion of learning science was a grim prospect, Guzmán learned to associate it with hope, and the importance of not forgetting either our own or the world’s history.
Though steeped in some understandably grim detail, the focus here is on beauty in all its forms, specifically space as compared to Chile’s lifeless Atacama Desert,...
- 7/12/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
By Craig Phillips
There's an ice cream parlor down the street from me that is locally famous for its giant spinning wheel aimed at the indecisive or risk-taking customer. A plethora of flavors are listed on the wheel as well as several "free" spaces. You could end up with marmalade-tobacco crunch (okay, I exaggerate) but you could also really score. No, films are not like ice cream, but this is kind of how I've approached deciding which films to see at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, while also trying to focus even more than in past years on films that may not have wide distribution. The temptations are there: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Meek's Cutoff, Beginners - which I did see - are among the distributed films playing at Sfiff 54. But director Graham Legget and his team of programmers (Rachel Rosen, Rod Armstrong, Sean Uyehara and Audrey Chang...
There's an ice cream parlor down the street from me that is locally famous for its giant spinning wheel aimed at the indecisive or risk-taking customer. A plethora of flavors are listed on the wheel as well as several "free" spaces. You could end up with marmalade-tobacco crunch (okay, I exaggerate) but you could also really score. No, films are not like ice cream, but this is kind of how I've approached deciding which films to see at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, while also trying to focus even more than in past years on films that may not have wide distribution. The temptations are there: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Meek's Cutoff, Beginners - which I did see - are among the distributed films playing at Sfiff 54. But director Graham Legget and his team of programmers (Rachel Rosen, Rod Armstrong, Sean Uyehara and Audrey Chang...
- 4/29/2011
- GreenCine Daily
“Most of my work refers to the historical memory of Chile and Latin America,” says acclaimed documentarian Patricio Guzmán (Salvador Allende, The Pinochet Case), a Santiago native who has lived in exile for more than three decades, after reflecting on the arc of his long, legendary career. “It’s a passion — creative territory that I have always followed.” Best known for his monumental three-part film The Battle of Chile (1973), an on-the-ground account of democratically elected leftist Salvador Allende’s brief term in office before a U.S.-backed coup d’etat brought dictator General Augusto Pinochet to power, Guzmán has always fought to rescue his native country from cultural amnesia through the art of eyewitness cinema. But his tireless examinations of remembrance (and the violence of forgetting) have been just as trenchant to his many projects.
Guzmán crystallizes these lifelong fixations in his brilliantly self-narrated new documentary, Nostalgia for the Light,...
Guzmán crystallizes these lifelong fixations in his brilliantly self-narrated new documentary, Nostalgia for the Light,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Patricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile. He studied at the Official Film School in Madrid where he specialized in documentary cinema. His work is regularly selected for and awarded prizes by international festivals. In 1973 he filmed The Battle Of Chile, a five-hour documentary about Salvador Allende's period of government and its fall. Cineaste described it as "one of the 10 best political films in the world." After the coup d'état, Guzmán was arrested and spent two weeks in the Santiago National Stadium where he was threatened with simulated executions on several occasions. He left Chile in 1973 and moved to Cuba, then Spain and France, where he made other films: In the Name of God (on liberation theology during the Chilean dictatorship), The Southern Cross (about popular religion in Latin America), Barriers of Solitude (about the historical memory of a small Mexican village), Obstinate Memory (about political amnesia...
- 10/14/2010
- MUBI
Somehow, there hardly seems a more pertinent time for a wide U.S. release of Patricio Guzmán's epochal "The Battle of Chile" (1975-78), a massive, three-part vérité documentary about the rise of Salvador Allende's socialist government and its subsequent usurpation by the country's American-backed military junta.
The title of Part 1 -- "The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie" -- says it all: imagine, if you can, the heaven-sent Bizarro-world where a people-power government is successfully installed, triumphantly wresting control of the starving nation's major industries and resources from corporations and multinationals, and thereby precipitating an overt and covert insurrection led by the business owners and bankers and moneyed class.
You know a truly democratic, for-the-people policy is working if you enrage the wealthy, a rare situation that smacks, lightly, of what's happening in this country at the moment, as Republicans and corporations have gone berserk trying to stop Obama from...
The title of Part 1 -- "The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie" -- says it all: imagine, if you can, the heaven-sent Bizarro-world where a people-power government is successfully installed, triumphantly wresting control of the starving nation's major industries and resources from corporations and multinationals, and thereby precipitating an overt and covert insurrection led by the business owners and bankers and moneyed class.
You know a truly democratic, for-the-people policy is working if you enrage the wealthy, a rare situation that smacks, lightly, of what's happening in this country at the moment, as Republicans and corporations have gone berserk trying to stop Obama from...
- 12/8/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
TORONTO -- Taylor Hackford's Ray, a biopic about Ray Charles starring Jamie Foxx, and Tom Hooper's directorial debut, Red Dust, which stars Hilary Swank, are to receive world premieres at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Festival organizers also said Tuesday that the festival will feature North American premieres for Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, Benoit Jacquot's A tout de suite and Patricio Guzman's Salvador Allende, and the Canadian premiere of Chantal Akerman's Demain on demenage. In the Special Presentations sidebar, Toronto will unspool world premieres for John Sayles' Silver City, Enduring Love and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, as well as the North American premieres of Dylan Kidd's P.S., Darrell Roodt's Yesterday and Todd Solondz's Palindromes.
- 7/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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